On the wintery Monday morning of January 10, 2011, Molly hosted the first stitching group at her home. One year and two months later, the group is growing strong, enhancing our stitching skills, meeting each week and, most importantly, becoming better friends. We decided we'd like to have some memories from our times together, and so this blog was born.

Last summer, we had one of our gatherings at Sue's house. This is Sue, Bonnie, Flora, and Molly.

                                    Sue and Bonnie showing off our blankets at Flora's house.

You can see Flora working on her embroidery project (a dresser scarf) and part of the beautiful finished scarf is above.

In October of 2011, we had lunch at Mamie's in Roxbury to celebrate Bonnie's and Sue's birthdays. This is Flora, Bonnie, Sue, and Molly.

We have had many dinners together over the past year. Molly had us over for a Memorial Day outdoor dinner. Bonnie and her housemate Kathy Sue hosted  a dinner gathering during the "calm before the storm" - the night before Hurricane Irene struck Connecticut. Flora and her husband Jim cooked a delicious dinner for us on a dark November night. Sadly, I don't think we have photos from any of those gatherings. But thanks to Bonnie, we do have some pictures from our most recent dinner,which was  at Sue and Brad's house in February.

                                                             Sue making paella.

Another photo from dinner.

Flora brought chocolate cake with raspberry sauce for dessert, and as you can see it looked heavenly. I can assure you it tasted even better.

Thank you to Bonnie for the photo of a girl falling asleep while knitting. Sometimes that's how we feel. But mostly we feel energized and excited to be together while knitting, or embroidering, or crocheting, or doing whatever handwork we bring to our Monday gatherings.